Time domain reflectometers

Time domain reflectometers are used to determine the characteristics of electrical or optical transmission lines by observing reflected pulses.

Links

• Time-domain reflectometer @ Wikipedia
• Tektronix 003-0700-00 Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) slide rule

Documents Referencing Time domain reflectometers

Document	Class	Title	Authors	Year	Links
Service Scope 38 Jun 1966.pdf	Article	Tektronix Type 1S2 Makes Reflectometry Easy		1966	1S2 • Time domain reflectometers
Service Scope 45 Aug 1967.pdf	Article	Time-Domain Reflectometry Theory and the Testing of Coaxial Transmission Lines		1967	1S2 • 547 • Time domain reflectometers
062-1244-00.pdf	Book	Measurement Concepts: Time-Domain Reflectometry Measurements	James A. Strickland • H. Allen Zimmerman • Gordon Long • George Frye	1969	Time domain reflectometers • 3S7 • 3T7

Patents that may apply to Time domain reflectometers

Page	Title	Inventors	Filing date	Grant date	Links
Patent US 3434049A	Time domain reflectometry system having a current source for locating discontinuities in a transmission line	George Frye	1965-12-06	1969-03-18	Time domain reflectometers
Patent US 4755742A	Dual channel time domain reflectometer	Agoston Agoston • John Rettig • Stan Kaveckis • John E. Carlson • Andrew E. Finkbeiner	1986-04-30	1988-07-05	Time domain reflectometers • SD-24
Patent US 4743753A	Method and apparatus for carrying out fiber optic time domain reflectomery wherein Golay complementary sequences are applied	John Cheng • Jeffrey H. Goll • J. Nelson Edwards	1986-09-05	1988-05-10	Time domain reflectometers
Patent US 4989971A	Automatic mask trigger for an optical time domain reflectometer	Kevin B. McDonald	1989-07-14	1991-02-05	Time domain reflectometers
Patent US 6437578B1	Cable loss correction of distance to fault and time domain reflectometer measurements	Linley Gumm	2000-11-14	2002-08-20	Time domain reflectometers